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Rage Against the Cathedral - Curtis Yarvin, Dark Enlightenment - DSci 181
Aug 28, 2023
Curtis Yarvin, blogger from the Dark Enlightenment movement, discusses the failure of democracy and the emergence of science as a tool of trust and power. They explore the degradation of democracy and the burden of proof in a simulation-like world. They also touch on topics like conspiracies, dissidence, parsing history, and the selection of a monarch.
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- The rise of the internet and access to information has necessitated the critical evaluation of credibility in epistemology.
- The digital environment's influx of misinformation challenges the marketplace of ideas and erodes trust in traditional expertise.
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